Today's News by Cletus™
Tom Richard wrote in to let everyone know that he has updated Change Startup Disk to 1.4. The Deluxe version works on multiple partitions/hard drives and incorporates one nice, friendly opening dialog box to get you in and out quickly. The Deluxe version does require the 24U Appearance OSAX.
Oh yeah! Unsanity does it again! FruitMenu 2.0 is a major update to this haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. While CMM's have been creeping out more and more for Mac OS X, FruitMenu really shines in this area. Check out the image below. The list of changes is long and can be found in its entirety on the homepage.
VoJou Software has posted a new beta version of @-time— 2.0b1. It is a Dock based application that displays the time in several world cities. It also displays GMT (UTC) time and Internet (@) time. If you are in the habit of communicating with people in several different time zones, you will want to check this program out.
- New Mac OS X only version
- Use a dock menu to display time in several locations
- Display a custom time in the application Dock icon
- Many other improvements
Classic Toggler 1.4 allows complete management of the Classic system under Mac OS X. Northern Softworks has added a Classic Applications menu as well as making it completely compatible with Mac OS X 10.1.5.
Super Get Info 1.0.8 from Bare Bones provides you with an excellent replacement for the Show Info command. Several enhancements have been included with this release: SGI now supports viewing and editing of Mac OS X's Finder comments. Big one— has the capability to copy and paste icons, by selecting the items icon in the same manner as for a Finder info window. Email addresses in vcard previews are now presented as clickable mailto links. There are a couple of other new features and many bug fixes. Well worth checking out.
One complaint you always hear about Mac OS X is the speed. It is slow at times, but after only using Mac OS X for several months it is less noticeable as you get use to it. SpeedMeUp Pro 2.0 helps speed things up, applications launch faster by running the prebinding scripts. This way programs spend less time looking up and "binding" with various libraries and frameworks.
David Remahl was kind enough to send in an email letting us know that Infinity-to-the-Power-of-Infinity has released a major update to their award-winning icon creation tool Can Combine Icons, bringing it to version 3.0.0. The update adds powerful features such as drop shadows and 3D effects as well as great performance enhancements and bug fixes.
Renaud Boisjoly also wrote in to mention that PinPoint 1.2 is now out. PinPoint is a cursor enhancement tool for Mac OS X. It adds HotKey support, a new cursor, and better interoperability in Classic applications. He writes: "Its great for demos where the audience needs to follow the cursor, for people with large monitors or multiple monitors and for people with visual disabilities (for whom it is free!)"
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
Icons - Desktops: We have an excellent line up for you to end the week with, starting with (8) New Desktops, (2) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". All on display for today's update.
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a snap!
- While searching for that ultimate OSX icon motif, Flax Creations came up with an interesting Iconian concept. Spot Icons Volume 2 features 16 more different system level and application icons, which get directly to the point. Most also include a small identifying text label, and these look their best.
- K'run took the time to rework some old style icons, and transformed them into a nice set of multipurpose Classic sized folders. Just Some Iconz includes 25 different icons.
- John Rose does an outstanding job capturing the timeless essence of movie goddess Marilyn Monroe in this new celebrity desktop. This excellent piece comes in 1280x resolution. Looking for more of John's work? Check out his Sketchbook, where you will be sure to find more delightful decorations.
- Yes indeed, Alexander Wolf is back in a creating mood, and brings several more his of great desktop creations to delight your senses. "New York" is the second up in the que, and comes in 1024x resolution.
- Kuni by Anthony Kwon. is his own character design (for an unfinished animated short). She was sketched with pencil, and painted with Procreate Painter 7. The original image that he used to make the desktop picture was painted at a very high resolution, so the Cinema Display res version should look great. (It wasn't just scaled up) The picture features a 3D model, based off the popular anime series, and is available in 6 different resolutions.
- While an extensive Google search didn't turn up the identity of this bikini clad beauty named Zoe, you might just say that it really doesn't matter. Enjoy this perfect "10" desktop put together by Nate Penwell in 1024x resolution.
- Bindings 1 is the fourth of many new desktops to be displayed here by Alan Sherwood of EADesign. This one is described by Alan as a series that he started to try and show a type of chaos, but in the end turned out to symbolize more of the way we are held back by the things we feel are important to us. Comes in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- After seeing the latest Starwars adventure Episode 11, Marc Kuder was so impressed with the Yoda character, that he just had to sit right down and create several desktops in honor of the frumpy Jedi Master. This set includes 3 different desktops, all available in 1024x resolution.
- Gone but not forgotten, by Alan Garcia laments the fact that Apple has decided to stop all development on OS9, and will be devoting it's energies to OSX. Despite Apple's announcement, perhaps it's a bit premature to sweep aside OS9, as OSX has a long way to go before it reaches the elegance of it's predecessor. This second in the series "nostalgic" desktop comes in 1024x resolution.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt, one of the young and talented actress in Hollywood makes a star studded small screen appearance in this new desktop by Tim Taylor. Comes in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web:
John's Sketchpad has been updated with nine more Desktops, several sketches and a new portfolio page.
Live Pencil updates with new icons, animations, clip art, and loads of other fun!
DV Graphics closes the week with a new icon set called "Signs".
EA Design announces double whammy for you, as originally promised, just on time, we apologize for the delay but give you all we have got. 6 new 3D EACH! And, 6 new 2D EACH! Enough for you, probably not but we try our best.
The Crew over at Ethereal Creations have been busy with the hammers and chisels re-designing the site from the ground up in addition to prepping three beautiful desktops for the New Releases section. Put on your jogging shoes, pay us a visit and go "squish in our very Aqua interface. New sections include Downloads and Screensavers which will begin filling up shortly. Mind the sawdust and come on in!
Pixelcentric Design posts a long-ish tutorial/primer thing on understanding and creating proper Aqua icons for toolbars and the Finder up on the newly re-launched Pixelcentric Studios website.
Mando would like to inform you that there are 11 new desktops at mandolux.com. Featuring a new collection of SR-71 Blackbird, five new Apaches, and a new Fire & Flames named Etta.
The Iconfactory is proud to announce our latest freeware icon collection, Tribal Masks for OS X. Iconfactory Foreman, Gedeon Maheux has taken inspiration from tribal cultures from around the globe to create this newset of colorful, and bold icons for the Macintosh desktop.
Widget has released two beautiful new sets, containing the most 'Aqualicious' Palms available on the Internet. Even better than that, widget will releasing new desktop pictures for the next week. Head on over and check it out!
MacMonkies serves up 6 new Icon sets and 9 new Desktops! The desktop lineup comes from Bob Spence, Neil Roberts, EA Design, MacMonkies, and EMK Design. New icons are on display from DV Graphics, IHeartNY, Flax Creations, and EMK Design. All this and more are available this week at MacMonkies.com!
Rene of Happicon announces a new icon set called 'FinderMoods. You can download these icons either at the Happicon home page, or at a mirror site here.
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
Calendar & Appointment Scheduler for Mac OS X
Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle
Xthemination has the scoop on two new MacOS X appearance themes. Take a look at MakkiX by Takashi Izawa (on the left) and SlickMetal X 1.0 by George Lampman. John Engler sent a link for MacStumbler, a program that lists all the available 802.11 wireless signals in an area. If these networks do not require a password and are configured for DHCP, an unethical person could access the signal for internet access. I can't wait to see how this next utility works in downtown Chicago at lunchtime, not because I want to steal my internet access, but because I'm curious to see how many 802.11 networks are in the area and if they are secure. If you are lucky, there may even be a free wireless company in your area
John also recommends you read this article on making a bootable emergency CD for MacOS X.
Users of Eudora may remember the elusive x-settings, hundreds of unlisted preferences that you can change. There is a list on Qualcomm's site, and Adam Engst from TidBit's maintains an email list to let people know when the x-settings have been updated. Adam also has a great site for all things Eudora. Changes are listed below:
<x-eudora-setting:160> Name of charset to use when sending mail with special characters, if Eudora Tables plug-in is not being used.
<x-eudora-setting:298> REMOVED FROM 5.1.1. When checked, Eudora will download HTML graphics itself instead of using URL Access
<x-eudora-setting:352> Check to Shift-Cmd-N for check mail just like Apple's Mail application. Use Cmd-M to minimize window.
<x-eudora-setting:353> When checked, Eudora will display PDF files inline. Setting reversed; use "n" for ON, "y" for OFF!
<x-eudora-setting:354> Check to use Shift-Cmd-A for attach just like Apple's Mail application. Use Cmd-H to hide application. Setting reversed; use "n" for ON, "y" for OFF!
<x-eudora-setting:355> When checked, Eudora will use URL Access to download HTML graphics itself instead of downloading them itself
<x-eudora-setting:10106> Give up on parsing MIME structures deeper than this
<x-eudora-setting:10114> format for doing AUTH PLAIN with initial argument.
<x-eudora-setting:32416> Scroll this many lines per scroll wheel click.
<x-eudora-setting:32417> File suffixes (separated by bullets) that mean a file is a sound file
<x-eudora-setting:32419> Name of system Documents folder. Used to find classic Documents folder.
Is seems everyone is helping to spice-up the Linux Desktop! Gedeon Maheux from the Iconfactory submitted a new set of Tribal Mask icons to KDE-Look. Just as when Dan Flax submitted his icons and desktops, Gedeon's icon set has been favorably received!
User Contributed Splash Screens. by Michael Coyle It's easier than ever to contribute using the new Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth $50 ! (How?)
- A lovely young lady is featued in this MacOS X Boot Panel by Jeff Hicks .
- BloodFly sends another iTunes skin titled, "DiscoStu". This one had flies crawling over it!
- Using PhotoShop 6 with Eyecandy effects, Dean Loros created a nice Boot Panel.
Big Brother is Watching You! by Erick Tejkowski
This week we'll build a video surveillance application. It's great fun for spying on your kid sis, keeping an eye on your toddler, or watching the sunset... all without leaving your computer. Not only is it fun and useful, but it's also really easy to get started with video in REALbasic. We'll show you how!
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Today's News by Cletus™
First things first. Thanks to Mike for the hack. If you missed this one, you can check it out here: "Using an external email program with Mozilla 1.0." It fits my needs perfectly, and it may fit yours.
Unsanity— Thank you also. I started using Silk and was bitten by the nasty AIM bug whereby sending an Instant Message would result in an instant and unexpected quitting of the program. A beta snuck out two days ago, which I admit I snagged. Now the real deal is out. Version 1.1 has the following: (partial list)
- Added some default exclusions for: AIM, AOL Client, and Radio UserLand
- Partial German translations (Thanks Matthias Merzbacher)
- Removed exclude and replaced it with per application defaults.
- Can now set any of the three Quartz rendering flags independently for each application or globally for all Carbon applications.
- Changes take effect immediately.
- Excluding an application no longer requires a relaunch of the Silk daemon.
- Updated the icon (to the right) so it looks better in System Preferences.app.
Those lucky enough to have been the winners in last week contest will know about this already, LaunchBar 3.2.1 is now out. The list of features updated with this release is too long to list here, but is fantastic. Quickly launch any program file or folder simply by typing in part of the name.
AlphaOmega Software have released ASCII Viewer 1.5 which is a utility to display the ASCII table and the code of pressed keys. This can be useful for HTML coding or hex code editing.
Continuing along the hex trail, HexEditor 1.4 is now available for download. This version adds two items. First is a field disclosure to allow better screen usage and second is a preferences panel, uppercase/lower case hex selection, option to work on copy and allowing editing to be selected by default. One bug fix: Corrected a problem that made it impossible to open multiple special files simultaneously.
Cass Design, has been online for 4 years, but have just released their first ever Mac OS screensavers for Mac OS X! Welcome to the big time! The first is "Ansel Adams Photographs" The description is thus: In this screen saver are the photographs reflecting the beauty of America's National Parks, all seen through the lens of the great landscape photographer Ansel Adams.
It seems the Dock version of Snard had a bug with Default Folder X, thus the update to this Dock and menu based launcher. If you use both programs, it is recommend that you update.
Non-Roman file names are now compatible when using the newest version of Classic Menu 2.5.3. It provides both an Apple menu on the left of the menu bar and a Process menu on the right. These menus are available within all programs while the Classic Menu application is running.
MemoryStick 1.1 provides several nice improvements to this utility to indicate the amount of RAM being used. The main improvement is that it now indicates how many swapfiles you have. It also has a Dock icon that now graphs RAM usage dynamically so you don't need MemoryStick's window. Additionally, all colors are now user-configurable.
The ever popular DockFun! has undergone significant changes. Enough that it ranks a new number and availability as a Preview release. The interface has been completely redesigned. Looks pretty cool!
SwapTop 1.7 runs in systems 8.6 - 10.1x and provides the user with a Desktop picture manager with automatic image download system. This version adds the ability to download higher quality "Webshots Unlimited" content, the ability to preserve image aspect ratios, and a Dock menu to set desktop picture on Mac OS X.
Cool Tip!
I recently added several programs to the Mac OS X Software Archive. I am still hanging loose on adding things on a whim as several programs have come out and then quickly disappear. Staying power gets you in there!
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
Icons - Desktops: We have an excellent line up for you today, starting with (8) New Desktops, (2) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". All on display for today's update.
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a snap!
- Hein's Application Icons, by none other than Hein Mevissen, is a spectacular set of 18 different OSX icons which are bound to knock your socks off. While ResExcellence does have quite a few of Hein's Icons residing in our archives, you definitely should visit his new website and view his extensive collection.
- Brak is back, and he's bad! Brak Icons by David Schloss of the Iconyard, features four OSX sized icons from the supercalafragalistic Brak Show, which is part of Adult Swim.
- No rock band alive can match Aerosmith's consistently awesome performance and creativity spanning over the last 30 years. Being a hard core fan for over 15 of those years, Bob Osiin proudly presents this desktop tribute to the band in 1024x and 800x resolutions.
- We were wondering when Alexander Wolf would surface again with more great desktop creations. Well, he's back and brings several new backdrops to delight your senses. "Lune Moon" is the first up in the que, and comes in 1024x resolution.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion fans will enjoy this new desktop created by Anthony Kwon. The picture features a 3D model, based off the popular anime series, and is available in 6 different resolutions.
- Pearl by Michael Addison of Macalodeon is another desktop from a series of 3-D renderings, featuring a highly imaginative, and cool looking I might add, prototype Mac. Michael uses a large variety and range of software to achieve his effects, including Photoshop, Carrara, Bryce, Infini-D, Cinema 4D, Poser, Tree Pro, and Amorphium Pro. This one comes in 1024x resolution.
- SunLord by Mark Masztal started with a name...SunLords, the name of a friends motorcycle club. From there, he cobbled together some ideas, did the flaming hair and the control gauntlets, worked up a background story and Tadda!, a cool pop culture desktop in 1152x resolution.
- Sometimes inspiration comes at the oddest times. Case in point, Marc Kuder's "Bulb" desktop. It all began when his desk lamps bulb went out. He took a closer look and got a bright idea. That's right, make a desktop! This one comes in 1024x resolution.
- Van Goh's Apple by Jay Lehrer was inspired by the famous one-eared painter. Sort of a "Starry Night" with a major touch of Apple, this one comes in 1024x resolution.
- Digital artist Keaner presents another of his stylish desktop compositions titled "Sarah 1" This inverted reality "think different" backdrop comes in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web:
The Iconfactory is proud to announce our latest freeware icon collection, Tribal Masks for OS X. Iconfactory Foreman, Gedeon Maheux has taken inspiration from tribal cultures from around the globe to create this newset of colorful, and bold icons for the Macintosh desktop.
Pixelcentric Design has gone through a massive overhaul and is now known as Pixelcentric Studios. The site has expanded from a one-man show to a three-man design team. The site offers free desktop images and icons, as well as custom design and production services.
Widget has released two beautiful new sets, containing the most 'Aqualicious' Palms available on the Internet. Even better than that, widget will releasing new desktop pictures for the next week. Head on over and check it out!
Ethereal Creations s pleased to update with one new image in the New Releases section and three new images in the Guest Art section. We've got an interesting and diverse image collection for this week, so please stop by and make yourself at home!
MacMonkies serves up 6 new Icon sets and 9 new Desktops! The desktop lineup comes from Bob Spence, Neil Roberts, EA Design, MacMonkies, and EMK Design. New icons are on display from DV Graphics, IHeartNY, Flax Creations, and EMK Design. All this and more are available this week at MacMonkies.com!
Mando would like to inform you that there are 7 new desktops at mandolux.com. representing a continuation of the Technosis/Anthraxis theme. The name of the new desktop is Darkness
Rene of Happicon announces a new icon set called 'FinderMoods. You can download these icons either at the Happicon home page, or at a mirror site here.
Iconstree has a new site design, and other assorted goodies to check out.
Longhairs Lair updates with some new desktop pictures.
DV Graphics DV Graphics begins the week with 4 new "Glass" desktops in a brand new desktop section.
Twisted Technology has released a new set of 4 desktop pictures at resolutions of 1280x1024 and 1024x768.
Desktop Federation updates with a bit of change to the pages and has added a news section. Ah, 3 new picts too! Be sure to have a look!
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
Complete Cable Management For The Home & Office.
Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle
This is one of the rare times you will read of a recommendation for a Windows application on ResExcellence! Raoul Reyes was the first of many readers to recommend Putty for secure telnet sessions under Windows. It's open source and full featured, so if you need to remotely log into your MacOS X box, I guess it's ok to use a Windows app. :) 
Using an external email program with Mozilla 1.0. by Michael Coyle
After months of prodding, I finally convinced Cletus to switch to Mozilla. He wished to continue using Entourage to handle mailto: links. In his pleading letter to me, he begs, "I have never asked you for an edit before. Please find a way to do this!"
I wish I could claim it was so difficult that I pulled-out what little hair I have left, but it's a rather easy modification - if you know where to look! (Continued...)
More on Moz...
Ryan asks, "I went to the MozDev site to download the SkyPilot theme and other than it taking forever to finally get to the download page, when I click on the theme name to download it a page comes up that says "false". Is there a way that I can get it somewhere else? I am using OS 9.x is that going to be a problem to get other themes, do I need X?"
Ryan, you are a checkbox away from happiness. Like me, you probably unchecked "Automatic Software Installation" in the Mozilla Preferences fearing a rogue Windows virus would try to seize your computer, but in order to install a theme, you need to activate the Software Install. You'll find it in the Preferences under Advanced-->Software Install. You can check/uncheck the option just for the moment you are installing the theme.
User Contributed Splash Screens. by Michael Coyle It's easier than ever to contribute using the new Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth $50 ! (How?)
- Based on beautiful amine artwork by Shirow Masanume, Joseph Kern assembled a nice Boot Panel.
- Jim Wright took that old mug shot of Bill Gates and made it into a funny MOSS.
- Shucks, this iTunes skin form BloodFly is full of pink bunnies!
- Titled "Too Hot to Handle", this Boot Panel from Dean Loros doesn't feature a super model. Think HOT as in SIZZLE.
- Wow. A blast from the past in this About this Mac replacement from Smokey Ardisson. It displays the multi-colored Apple logo and a Wallstreet Powerbook!
REALbasic News by Erick Tejkowski
This week in REALbasic news: - BSD Examples
- QuickTime Plugins
- Writer 2.8
- HTVCPSocket
- LogFile
- rXML
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Today's News by Cletus™
Norbert Heger from Objective Development has sent in the winners of the LaunchBar giveaway. Objective Development and ResExcellence wish to extend a thank you to all who participated. Below are the winners— congratulations to all.
- Axel Wefers
- Edward F. O'Rourke
- Neil D. Laubenthal
- Oscar Jack Marsh
- Quentin Hill
A much faster and leaner Change Startup Disk is now available. This AppleScript allows you to bypass the standaard system preference panel and change the startup disk much quicker. version 1.4 requires 24U OSAX which it will automatically download upon activation.
Picture Play 1.6 is now available. The update list is a hefty one and well worth checking out, just like the program itself. I have mentioned this previously, as you use it to make some custom desktop pictures as an idea. Here is a sample screenshot from Cresendo's home page. Picture Play lets you combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other graphics to create rich and diverse compositions with editable text content, backgrounds, and stylish effects including translucency, transparency, rotation and more.
The popular Locator find Utility has been updated to version 0.7.2. This update adds several needed functions and squashes several nasty bugs. A list from the update is included below. This program is a favorite of mine and it just keeps getting better and better.
- Option to index and search archives on removable media. Mac OS X formats: .zip, .gz, .tar, .tag.gz and .tgz are included. However, there is currently no support for proprietary formats like StuffIt archives.
- Added "Grep"-like functionality.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to some results not being shown in some rare conditions when the "search style" was set to "ends with".
- French localization issues fixed.
- Fixed a bug that lead to crashes when selecting a ".dfont" when "Try to load images" was checked in the preferences.
- Some other bug fixes and improvements, see the included documentation for a much fuller list.
GoodDoug Software have updated their version of Xmas Lights. A little out of season, but if you like lights hanging from your menubar, then this is the program for you.
Centromedia.Com has posted a new screensaver for Mac OS X called Falcon 4. It is a F4 Flight Simulator based screensaver. It produces some really unique and stunning images.
Unsanity quickly provided a fix for a problem with their recently updated Cee Pee You. It is a Menu Extra that displays CPU(s) load in your menu bar and, optionally, on Griffin Technology PowerMate. The load averages are updated every second. The previous version had a "very large memory leak" that is now fixed.
Several other popular programs saw updates over the past few days:
The AppleScript Trash It! rose to version 1.2 fixing a problem where it would not delete trash dragged from other partitions/harddrives.
iconCompo allows one to compose an icon from two images. This is release number 1.4.3 and provides several fixes and enhancements.
Kinetic Creations, Inc. Export Icon Plugin for Adobe Photoshop creates custom icons directly from Photoshop images, using the images RGB pixel data to create 4, 8 and 32-bit icons for the custom icon file. This update to version 1.7 provides compatibility with Mac OS X.
Between Silk, Mozzilla 1.0 (my new default browser) and the Machzilla theme, all of which Mike mentioned last week, I am very happy with Mac OS X and internet browsing again! Why mention them again? Because all these programs deserve another mention in my book. They are that good! Now if Mike can figure one item out for me, I will be the happiest person alive. Stay tuned....
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Polling Place by Michael Coyle More than half a year ago, I asked if you would subscribe to a web site. Last week, I asked if you had.
The results have been fairly consistent. Originally, two-thirds said NO, today, it's three-quarters. Several of the comments and many of the emails I received on the topic stated they subscribed for the first year, but do not plan to sign up when the current term expires.
A common comment from readers was that they would be willing to pay for original content: articles, interviews, or test results, but they hesitated to pay for sites that are databases of reader comments or submitted material.
It will take at least another year to see how subscriptions on mid to small sized web sites are accepted. It will be interesting to watch!
Last week I gave my old SCSI ScanMaker flatbed scanner to a co-worker. In 1995, it originally cost me $750. I replaced it with a better Microtek for $99. Isn't technology wonderful! The kids use it for adding images to homework, the wife will scan a document she needs to fax, and I use it to retouch old photos. How about you? This week's Polling Place asks, "Do you own a scanner?"
Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
Icons - Desktops: We have a great line up for you today, starting with (8) New Desktops, (3) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". All on display for today's update.
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is now a piece of cake!
- While searching for that ultimate OSX icon motif, Flax Creations came up with an interesting concept. Spot Icons Volume 1 features 17 different system level and application icons which get directly to the point. Most also include a small identifying text label, and these look their best displayed in larger sizes. Keep your eyes peeled for Volume 2, coming later this week.
- Steff Koerner submits a very small icon set titled "Iconzilla", designed to replace the current and somewhat unattractive Mozilla Browser icon.
- Aaron Schurman felt the need to create an entire set of Sponge Bob Props Icons, and share them with you. Aaron thinks Spongebob is one of the funniest cartoons out there, and hopes this little sea creature and his friends add some joy to your desktop! This is the third of three sets, and contains 22 icons for OSX.
- John Rose took the hint, and has resupplied us with a raft of excellent new desktops hot off the press from his Celebrity Sketchbook. The first in this new series is titled Alias, and features the oh so sexy Jennifer Garner in 1280x resolution.
- Matt Crowley continues to expand on his Beatles album desktop series with two more desktops featuring the fab four. As near as I can recollect, both Anthology and Beatles originate from early Beatles album covers, and both come in 1280x resolution.
- P@trick D. Lawrence sends a snazzy desktop titled "Orbital" for your viewing pleasure. Created using only 5 filters... Gaussian Blur, Radial Blur, Polar Coordinates, Clouds and Wind, and without the aid of a lens flare or 3D program of any kind, this one comes in 1024x and 800x resolutions.
- Our Landscape is the third of many new desktops to be displayed here by Alan Sherwood of EADesign. This one is described by Alan as a piece based on simplicity, showing us in our cages made of glass, those that bind us and shut us up, but don't make us realize we are trapped in a system that will not let us express ourselves, even to those closet to us. Comes in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- Nick Rosencrans gives a popular KDE/Linux desktop an Aqua face lift with his new version of "Clean and Bug Free". The included text file makes for amusing reading, and the desktop is available in 1024x resolution.
- Together with a classic Apple logo, some pinstripes and a couple of popular slogans, Conrad presents two more Apple-Retro desktops for your enjoyment. Both are available in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- Ready for a snack? Ali Landry gives new meaning to junk food in this "Doritos Girl" desktop by Nate Penwell. Comes in 1280x resolution.
- Sprinkled with a little Photoshop magic, Peter Grosett gives this photograph of Riley Pond the look of an elegant watercolor painting. This pastoral puddle is located in central Westchester County, New York. To see more of glorious Westchester in the Spring, visit: http://homepage.mac.com/petererrol/PhotoAlbum.html. This image and the ones at Peter's site are all scaled to 1024x768 resolution.
News From Around the Web:
Iconstree has a new site design, and other assorted goodies to check out.
Longhairs Lair updates with some new desktop pictures.
Mando would like to inform you that there are 7 new desktops at mandolux.com.representing a continuation of the Helicopters 2K2 with the Apache, Austere Petals with Genevre, and Fire & Flames with Della.
DV Graphics DV Graphics begins the week with 4 new "Glass" desktops in a brand new desktop section.
Twisted Technology has released a new set of 4 desktop pictures at resolutions of 1280x1024 and 1024x768.
Ethereal Creations updates with one image in their New Releases section and three images in their Guest Art section. Stop by and have a look!
MacMonkies offers another packed edition of Desktops and Icons sets from your favorite GUI artists. In addition to these fantastic GUI selections, the OSX Boot Panel Department has been updated with 2 new selections. News, Humor, and plenty of Desktop fun is in store this week at MacMonkies.com!
Desktop Federation updates with a bit of change to the pages and has added a news section. Ah, 3 new picts too! Be sure to have a look!
Widget has got a new icon set called 'Bits'n'Bobs: A Hardware Odyssey', ready to download today, as well as the regualr roundup of news, rumors and GUI goodness. And its worth checking out...
EA Design updates with a number of new desktops pictures.
Live Pencil updates with new Wallpapers, It Is You, Live Animals and more Tickle Me series.
Hein Mevissen opens the doors into his new Icon only website MiXthepiX.
So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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